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This Year in Jerusalem,
U.S. Policy Adrift

By

George Melloan

Updated Sept. 30, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

While Bill Clinton was in Boston Saturday boasting of his strong presidency, his United Nations ambassador was providing a more realistic display of administration decisiveness. On an important Security Council vote chastising Israel for the bloodshed in Palestine, Madeleine K. Albright abstained. Mr. Clinton was either too busy campaigning to make up his mind, or unable to, or too weak a leader to buck the usual anti-Israeli tide at Turtle Bay.

In the absence of any U.S. leadership, the other 14 Security Council members...